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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal"><font> </font></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI"><span class="gD">Brooks, Mark</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a></span></span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">



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    Subject: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2012.05.18 (01) [EN]</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><p class="MsoNormal">

<span style="font-family:Consolas">Thanks, Paul and Mike.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">I see what y’all
 mean. Yes, I’ve experienced those very things. When I was in the 
Netherlands years ago, I set about trying to learn some Dutch. I bought a
 couple of books, but no one would speak Dutch
 to me. They all wanted to speak English. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Much the same 
happens in Mexico. I speak Spanish fluently, and I translate English to 
Spanish in my job. When I go to Mexico, once they get over their 
surprise that I speak Spanish, they want me to speak
 English. It’s so extreme that I’ll speak Spanish to them and they speak
 English to me
</span><span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span style="font-family:Consolas"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Consolas">Mark Brooks </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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